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Were any of these off-shoot platformers for GB/C actually any good? I remember a lot of PS1 games being "ported" to Game Boy back in the day. I use the term "port" loosely, because they're nothing like their 3D counterparts.

I wonder if they were all just out-sourced watered-down shit, or if any of them were actually worth having in your collection.

>> No.2550151

No.

>> No.2550152

>>2550142
not platformer but Driver on GBC is a nice top-down car chase game better than the GTA attempts for GBC

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>>2550142
>Were any of these off-shoot platformers for GB/C actually any good?

yes. one of the best games on the system.

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>>2550153
also, this

>> No.2550168

>>2550142
they're all just out-sourced watered-down shit,

>> No.2550178

>>2550153
>>2550156
>platformers
Huh? Conker ain't even that great.

>> No.2550182

>>2550153
oh, a Metal Gear 2d platform game?
Sounds awesome...

Lrn2read

>> No.2550193

>>2550182

No need to split hairs. I suppose GB/C ports in general are what I'm curious about. I just wonder how these games translate to 2D hardware.

>> No.2550194

Kid Dracula and Gargolye's Quest are pretty cool, but you sound like you're looking for western games. So no, all the spinoffs on GB were just shovelware, and a LOT of them got them. I remember there were a bunch of Turok games on GB.

>> No.2550256

>>2550193
All of the Rare "ports" are great. Perfect Dark is awesome for example.

>> No.2550290

Most of the western down-ports are pretty bad. Rare is an exception. A lot of the japanese ones are pretty good though, a lot of it is just RPGs and such so the language barrier prevents most westerners from playing them.

>> No.2552376

>>2550194
I don't know why Kid Dracula or Gargoyle's Quest matter, but the Turok games certainly do. The first one really was a bad platformer, but the others where cool top-down run'n'guns. Thank you Bit Managers.

Daikatana on the GBC is really cool. Croc 2 on the GBC was made by Natsume and got the better reviews.

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>>2552376
I remember this being surprisingly fun.

>> No.2553640

>>2553567
I remember it being weird and incomprehensible, but then again I got it from a friend and thought it'd be a standard action platformer.

>> No.2553648

>>2553567
gat damn those button limitations

>> No.2554069

>>2553567
And even more relevant to the topic, there was one Oddworld game for the GBC.

>> No.2554210

Liked the Tomb Raider games for GBC. TR's exploration platforming worked well as a Prince of Persia-style sidescroller with the usual traps and puzzles, great animation too.

>> No.2554342

Rayman GBC was great and has better music than the original

>> No.2556425

Azure Dreams has a good GBC port.